芽
Tap the pinyin to hear it
bud; sprout
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 艸 +4
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 芽
- Common rank
- #1,980
- Unicode
- U+82BD
Sound it out + =
Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
sprout · Heisig RSH #2842
flower + tusk
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 芽
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 球芽甘蓝 | Brussels sprouts (Brassica oleracea L. var. gemmifera) | |
| 豆芽菜 | bean sprouts | |
| 花芽 | flower bud | |
| 发芽 | (of a seed) to germinate; (of a plant) to sprout; to bud; (fig.) (of an idea or plan etc) … | |
| 新芽 | new shoot; new sprout | |
| 芽眼 | (botany) undeveloped bud; eye | |
| 麦芽糊精 | maltodextrin | |
| 麦芽糖 | maltose (sweet syrup) | |
| 月芽 | variant of 月牙[yue4 ya2] | |
| 麦芽糖醇 | maltitol, a sugar alcohol | |
| 叶芽 | leaf bud | |
| 豆芽 | bean sprout | |
| 小麦胚芽 | wheat germ | |
| 顶芽 | terminal bud (growing at the tip of a plant) | |
| 肉毒梭状芽孢杆菌 | Clostridium botulinum | |
| 麦芽 | malt | |
| 肉芽肿 | (pathology) granuloma | |
| 蜡样芽孢杆菌 | (microbiology) Bacillus cereus | |
| 胚芽米 | semipolished rice (i.e. rice minus the husk, but including the germ) | |
| 芽苗 | a shoot; a sprout; a seedling |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 牙 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牙 sound part | tooth, molar; fang, tusk; serrated | |
| 雅 | elegant, graceful, refined | |
| 鸦 | crow; Corvus species (various) | |
| 呀 | particle used to express surprise | |
| 讶 | amazed, surprised; to express surprise | |
| 伢 | child | |
| 岈 | the name of a mountain | |
| 枒 | coconut tree; edge, rim | |
| 蚜 | aphid, plant louse | |
| 玡 | used in place names | |
| 迓 | to receive a guest |